Sentence examples for a patchy knowledge of from inspiring English sources

An Ofsted report into history teaching in 2007 found young people had a "patchy" knowledge of key historical events.

This Nabokovian jauntiness co-exists uneasily with the world-historical seriousness Amis adopted from Saul Bellow that, when combined with a patchy knowledge of world history and some primordial anxiety about cultural otherness, results in some pretty incoherent political postures.

"I know that it's a big tournament and that a lot of people like Hong Kong, going there to watch as much as to play," Isles says, the easygoing generality of his answer betraying an understandably patchy knowledge of rugby and its culture.

Scotland Yard has admitted "potential opportunities" were missed and that investigators who failed to see "striking similarities" between the deaths had only patchy knowledge of the use of drugs linked to the gay sex scene.

Hall's tenure was troubled, not externally, but rather from Hall's patchy knowledge of the college and staff; his selection, faute de mieux, was sometimes questioned, although he remained well-liked.

There is even less understanding of microorganisms and only limited and patchy knowledge of zooplankton; research on zooplankton ecology has increased recently, but is not yet finding its way into OBIS.

The survey revealed high confidence but patchy knowledge amongst nurses of the requirements for safe blood transfusion.

He was largely praised as producing a nuanced report that filled in patchy knowledge about the laundries.

Kidman has suffered a patchy run of form recently.

All these factors contribute to a patchy experience of groundwater projects to date.

The only consolation is that the Globes have a patchy record of predicting the Oscars.